I’ve been watching Yahtzee Croshaw for ~5 years now, but he’s been around for more like 15. He did change channels, but the style of videos he made stayed the same, and the quality, if anything, has only gotten better

FortNine: both the content and the video quality are top notch.
TechnologyConnections is the only channel where you’ll waste an hour nerding out on washing machines, even if you don’t own one.
Louis Rossmann has been instrumental in the fight for right to repair in the US.

Yeah i could list many more but you asked for one (and i already overran that), plus these are the ones that stand out to me.

Primitive Technology. He started the whole “build a shelter in the woods” genre that has become so dumb, but his videos are still just as great as ever. No narration or music, other than the sounds of the birds and insects, just interesting experiments into basic technology like shelters, fire, charcoal, kilns, pottery, small machines, bricks, roof tiles, etc., all using only the most primitive stone age tools, created from materials found in the forest and stream around his camp.

Even his attire is as spare as his videos, just a pair of khaki shorts.

Currently, he’s working through a series of experiments to make fire hot enough to smelt metal.

I’ve been watching him since he started, and he’s the only channel that I stop everything to watch when a new video drops.

Practical Engineering. His videos are about all the infrastructure that makes the modern world function.

Testing history with Max Miller and How to Drink.

Captain dissolution

Corridor crew

James Hoffman, it even keeps getting better with time. The prophet for the coffee fans

Techmoan, if you are interested in old or weird tech.

Its a German channel, but I would throw Simplicissimus into the ring. They always had high quality content, and the quality of their videos is constantly rising.

They also have an English channel

Grimbeard, puts out well researched and highly entertaining game retrospectives.

BobbyFingers creates dioramas of famous events with insane tangents while documenting their creation. One video even has a choreographed song.

Lawerence systems covers a lot of self hosted tech with articulate and concise instructions. Really like his method of teaching.

GreenX has some amazing retrospective videos about games, they’re a bit newer of a channel. Every upload has been fantastic though. Insanely funny, highly recommend watching their STALKER video.

Facefullofeyes, same as above but has a very inconsistent upload schedule. Much less humor than greenx but very insightful analysis. Highly recommend the SWAT 4 video.

Accursed Farms, twoodfrd, Rummy’s Corner, Grimbeard, RedLetterMedia, Summoning Salt, Zaric Zhacaron, OneShortEye.

I’ll add some that haven’t been mentioned.

Tech Ingredients - various experiments and builds. Everything on how to make rum to good novel speakers.

Erik Brandal - makes sound sculptures

/noclip - video game dev documentaries

This old Tony - Machining while being funny

Posy - Quirky beautiful retro HiFi/Tech

Edit: have to add Posy

Red Letter Media. I’ve grown bored of the content though but that’s a me problem.

Majuular. He makes long form retrospectives of old games, his Ultima retros are amazing. Just keeps getting better and better.

Okoii

Ssethtzeentach

VaatiVidya

Ymfah

Sitting With Dogs (Rocky Kanaka)

Some More News

History Marche

Fairbairn Films

Don’t Tell Comedy

Bernadette Banner does historical (largely Victorian) sewing techniques and patterns but sometimes branches out into health and beauty recipes as well.

Abby Cox does historical fashion on a broader scale and sometimes has content about other historical trends or myths that she encounters in her research.